Get your tickets to the annual Coaches vs. Cancer College Basketball Classic Nov. 21-22 at Barclays Center. Nov. 21 will be “CYO Night.”
Month: October 2014
R.I.P. ‘Shotgun’ Shuba
George “Shotgun” Shuba, who played seven seasons with the Brooklyn Dodgers, died peacefully Sept. 29 at the age of 89.
CYO Welcomes New Brooklyn Parishes
A few Brooklyn parishes have joined the CYO, including St. Columba, St. Bernadette and Holy Innocents.
St. Stan’s Continues Raising Breast Cancer Awareness
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr, Ozone Park, continued its slate of games in its first annual “Battle Against Breast Cancer” hoops tournament.
CYO Mass Opens Hoops Season
Queens Deanery No. 5 held a special CYO Mass Saturday, Oct. 18 at Our Lady of the Snows Church, North Floral Park.
St. Clement Pope Takes Long Strides
The St. Clement Pope, Jamaica, Catholic Youth Organization track team hosted its annual “Long Stride” event on Oct. 18.
Warsaw Archbishop Visits Polish Flock in Brooklyn
Family life and the new evangelization were the themes for this year’s diocesan Polish Heritage Mass.
Futures’ Dinner Raises Over $2.2 Million
Futures in Education, the scholarship fund of the Diocese of Brooklyn, set a record when it raised over $2.2 million in scholarships for the deserving students of low-income families. The annual Scholarship Fund Dinner was held Oct. 14 at the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan.
Sister ‘Tesa’ Wins National Prize
Sister Teresa “Tesa” Fitzgerald, a Sister of St. Joseph from Brentwood, L.I., who directs the Hour Children program that helps women in prison and former women inmates as well as their children, has won the 2014 Opus Prize for faith-based humanitarian work.
Relic of St. JP II Will Reside in Elmhurst
Hundreds gathered in Elmhurst to be among the first to see, touch and venerate a first-class relic of St. John Paul II, which has taken up permanent residence at St. Adalbert Church.